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Alabama grows bigger Gators than anywhere else
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:02 pm
It's alligator season in Alabama, and they got one near Camden that might be the biggest legally caught alligator on record.
Measuring in at 15 feet even and a staggering 1011.5 pounds, confirmed by state biologists monitoring the hunt.
Troy Landry made an appearance at last year's hunt and called the Bama gators "babies"...what say you now Troy?
Measuring in at 15 feet even and a staggering 1011.5 pounds, confirmed by state biologists monitoring the hunt.
Troy Landry made an appearance at last year's hunt and called the Bama gators "babies"...what say you now Troy?
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:05 pm to antibarner
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what say you now Troy?
Dude is probably wishing football season would start already. We've got Gumps arguing about which state has the biggest alligators.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:09 pm to Yat27
This IS the off topic board. The proper place to post this. Geez Corndogs....
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:17 pm to antibarner
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This IS the off topic board. The proper place to post this.
Indeed.
Maybe one of us coonasses will call Troy up and tell him to shut his frickin trap after this new information has come to light.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:34 pm to antibarner
A fifteen foot ala gator is hard to believe. The state record last year in Mississippi was 13' 9". I was drawn this year and we formed a team at work and I can't wait. Ours starts Friday, August 29th at 12noon. I was drawn to hunt the west central zone and that is same area record gator was caught last year. Mississippi Department if Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks says that by 2016 you should start to see 14 foot gators in Mississippi. It's hard to believe one in Alabama can be that much bigger.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:42 pm to antibarner
I've never seen em that big at Camden, but I've seen some that big at Eufaula. Fishing at Eufaula can be unnerving at times.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 10:53 pm to antibarner
Want a cookie or a fruit bowl?
Basically nobody really cares
Basically nobody really cares
Posted on 8/16/14 at 11:07 pm to antibarner
You haven't lived until you've been a foot or 2 away from a 1 ton, 18 ft crocodile... it was captive, but that thing was ginormous.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 11:20 pm to antibarner
I wonder if this one was just below Miller's Ferry Dam?
I was doing some diving there about 15 years ago and ran into a monster.He wasn't that big yet,but was well on his way.
I was doing some diving there about 15 years ago and ran into a monster.He wasn't that big yet,but was well on his way.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 12:01 am to auggie
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:19 am to antibarner
Bigger women too
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:22 am to antibarner
I don't know how anyone could be happy about killing the last dinosaur.
This thing was probably alive before Teddy Roosevelt stormed the San Juan Heights in the Spanish American war... The first Model T rolled down a street in Birmingham and for all we know ate a few Yankees in the war between the states.
Now somebody will stuff it, place it in a BBQ joint surrounded with Christmas lights and Alabama gear with a National Champion #16 'rawl Tide helmet adorned.
Walmart tour soon to come...
This thing was probably alive before Teddy Roosevelt stormed the San Juan Heights in the Spanish American war... The first Model T rolled down a street in Birmingham and for all we know ate a few Yankees in the war between the states.
Now somebody will stuff it, place it in a BBQ joint surrounded with Christmas lights and Alabama gear with a National Champion #16 'rawl Tide helmet adorned.
Walmart tour soon to come...
Posted on 8/17/14 at 7:43 am to BarberitosDawg
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Now somebody will stuff it, place it in a BBQ joint surrounded with Christmas lights and Alabama gear with a National Champion #16 'rawl Tide helmet adorned.
Roll Damn Tide
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:30 am to Alahunter
click your heels Dorothy. "There's no place like Walmart, there's no place like Walmart, there's no place like Walmart"
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:37 am to antibarner
There was a HUGE one caught down near mobile last year as I recall as well.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:08 am to Aubie Spr96
I can vouch for Eufala. My buddy and I ran up there 7-8 years ago. I'm used to seeing some big lizards out on Okeechobee or in the Everglades. Was pretty surprised at the size we saw up in some of the feeder creeks at Eufala.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:28 am to SoFla Tideroller
I played on my high school's golf team and our state championship tournament was held each year at the Lake Point Resort course in Eufaula. I remember being suprised at how many gators there were in all the lakes on the course. There were some big ones too.
The weird thing is that this gator was caught about 30 miles from our hunting camp. We have seen a couple of smallish 5 or 6 foot gators in the lake next to our land and even found a 5 foot gator bedding down in a small water hole in the middle of one of our food plots. Despite seeing them on occasion, I still find it weird that there are gators that big that far inland. I guess I shouldn't be suprised as a guy I know took an 11 foot gator near our hunting camp in the hunt a few years ago.
The weird thing is that this gator was caught about 30 miles from our hunting camp. We have seen a couple of smallish 5 or 6 foot gators in the lake next to our land and even found a 5 foot gator bedding down in a small water hole in the middle of one of our food plots. Despite seeing them on occasion, I still find it weird that there are gators that big that far inland. I guess I shouldn't be suprised as a guy I know took an 11 foot gator near our hunting camp in the hunt a few years ago.
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:48 am to Tiguar
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click your heels Dorothy. "There's no place like Walmart, there's no place like Walmart, there's no place like Walmart"
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 12:52 pm to MykTide
Another article I read a while ago, says that it found several miles above the dam, so it probably isn't the same one.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 7:19 pm to BarberitosDawg
I'm not a tree huger or anything of the sort, I can spear fish with the best of you as long as my ears can clear...
I just read the hunt story and that was some brutal shite! Snatched him with over a dozen treble hooks over a five hour ordeal then shot him twice before the beast gave up the ghost is what's reported...
It's a huge gator taken legally, but if fear some backlash coming y'all s way from the non hunting public.
They should have had one picture with the beast (not riding him like a six flags roller coaster) and somebody make up a story for the press that this was a mercy hunt as the gator had cataracts from being 180 years old and couldn't see anymore.
People don't honestly care if it's true or not just need to hear something soft so they don't feel bad...
I just read the hunt story and that was some brutal shite! Snatched him with over a dozen treble hooks over a five hour ordeal then shot him twice before the beast gave up the ghost is what's reported...
It's a huge gator taken legally, but if fear some backlash coming y'all s way from the non hunting public.
They should have had one picture with the beast (not riding him like a six flags roller coaster) and somebody make up a story for the press that this was a mercy hunt as the gator had cataracts from being 180 years old and couldn't see anymore.
People don't honestly care if it's true or not just need to hear something soft so they don't feel bad...
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